Quotes About Resistance

Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn't do.

The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their weapon against life, life is all that they have.

Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in this the movement of humanity is like the movement of material bodies?

The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.

Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is.

The inner life must overcome the flesh or the flesh will overcome and destroy the inner life.

We're all collectors by nature. But if you're talking about an orderly life, there has to be a stop sign somewhere. Building a collection requires a strong constitution and the ability to resist.

Life makes no sense if you have to tolerate endless lies. I will never accept this system, which is built on lies, i will not stop my fight against this junta.

She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at it.

He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.

The massive anti-war movement, which I was a part of and which was a major part of my life, never stopped the war in Vietnam.

There's a reason why bullying takes such a strong form online. People don't have to push back as much as they would in real life.

The underground is not a place but a way of life. You can be underground most anywhere, from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Hermosa Beach, California.

I am a hindrance to the world, and the world is a hindrance to me.

The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia.

The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by inertia.

Instead of assaulting sales resistance by direct attack, he is interested in removing sales resistance.

The West's global cities are like tropical islands surrounded by oceans of resentment.

The paranoia of strongmen far outweighs the supposed efficiency of their methods. Trust is the glue of a successful free society; fear is the currency of the autocrat. It is the former that is most desperately needed. By this measure – the most important of all – Trump is an unabashed autocrat. The more resistance he encounters, the more he will sow mistrust. Technology is Trump's friend. Science is his enemy.

Nothing so stubborn could change until it became more painful to avoid than to confront.

No, no guns, they won't get us anywhere. I tried that when I was young and it's a useless interim game. Use guns and you're no better than the Black and Tans and that's not good enough.

Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.

no one has ever gone from slavery to freedom with the slaveholders cheering them on

an irresistible force meeting an immovable object.